With Márcio Local Says, ”Don Day Don Dree Don Don”: Adventures In Samba Soul (out now on Luaka Bop), he stands at the crossroads of two great traditions in modern Brazilian music: one foot in samba (the heavily percussive Afro-Brazilian dance music that took its modern form in the early twentieth century) and the other in soul.[Read more...]

Here’s another Joy Jones treat with broken beat and soul vibes for you as we eagerly await her full-length, Godchild (out June 9th on Future Soul Recordings). The album will feature the Daz-I-Kue (of West London’s Bugz In The Attic fame) mix of “The Joy.”

Brooklyn’s DJ Center offers his latest track, “Tout Passe” (French for “everything shall pass”) featuring Samia Farah, for a free download. It is the first song on Center’s upcoming debut EP Everything In Time.